Beginning with an autobiographical account of the mind, Jeffery Donaldsons marvellous new collection moves from personal history to national history, concluding with Province House,&
In a bold, brilliant collection of stories, Dora Award-winning playwright Anton Piatigorsky delivers a superbly inspired inquiry into the early lives of the 20th century’s most notorious tyrants. In T
In 1942, RAF flight controller Robert Wyse became a Japanese prisoner of war on the island of Java in Indonesia. Starved, sick, beaten, and worked to near-death, he wasted away until he weighed only s
In the last two decades of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th century, glass manufacturing was a unique enterprise in Canada. Beginning with the founding of the Nova Scotia Glass C
Theres something fresh and fantastic in Aurian Hallers view of the world. In Song of the Taxidermist, he demonstrates both a fascination and unease with the independence of the body
Kalila chronicles the lives of Maggie and Brodie, whose joy collides with devastation when their daughters birth also heralds the news of her congenital heart condition. In this startlingly i
Were the Gallerys treasures gifts or loans? Was Lord Beaverbrook careless or devious? Jacques Poitras sifts through the personal correspondence, takes stock of the witnesses and testimony at
For many years, Maud Lewis was one of Nova Scotia?s best-loved folk painters. In the 1990s she was embraced by the rest of the country when the landmark exhibition of her work The Illuminated Life of
The Globe and Mail Top 100 Quill & Quire Book of the Year Amazon.ca Editors' Pick, Top 100 Now magazine, Top 10 Books Chatelaine, Favourite Books of 2013 Hailed over and over as the best book of 2013.
In a collection as fine in scope as it is intimate in detail, Running the Whale's Back presents a host of Eastern Canada?s brightest literary talents, all putting pens to paper to explore the multiple
In the aftermath of the 1960s, tensions simmer beneath the surface of a small town in rural Massachusetts. Watergate and the war in Vietnam have shaken Americans' faith in their government, the energy
"A catalogue to accompany the exhibition Anthropocene, a collaboration by the artists and filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, and Nicholas de Pencier, including film, photography, virtual
Pack up and get ready to hike the beautiful trails of Nova Scotia. From Yarmouth to the Canso Causeway, this new updated edition of Hiking Trails of Mainland Nova Scotia, a companion to Hiking Trails
A major publication comprising 256 pages with 75 colour plates and 60 black-and-white photographs provides extensive documentation of the exhibition Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Along
Chilean-born Renato Trujillo has published several collections of poetry in both Spanish and English. In Rooms he exhumes the floating images of his past — his mother hanging clothes on the line, the
This book presents the revelatory nature of Trujillo's English poetry. In the simplicity of these lines unfolds the mood and emotion divined by one who sees this country-made-home with the eyes and me
A major publication comprising 256 pages with 75 colour plates and 60 black-and-white photographs provides extensive documentation of the exhibition Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Along